Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb past] [pers pn] all " in BNC.
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| 1 | Brenda ( seventeen , Jamaican parents ) commented that in Jamaica she had been teased as a " foreigner " because her Creole was not up to scratch : Oh , they call you all — " English gyal , come here English gyal ! " yeh , my sister 'ad it all , my sister ai n't English , my sister 's Jamaican , because she come over here when she was young , when she went back over there they were callin' her English gyal , the lot [ ] but when she , she ai n't forget nothin' , she can still speak it so she open her mouth and they say sorry [ ri ] ! |
| 2 | Polished parquet and a narrow scarlet runner made them all look the same . |
| 3 | Nick 's mum got her all the Barbie stuff . |
| 4 | It had been a gruelling season but the final result made it all worthwhile . |
| 5 | His kindness amazed us all . |
| 6 | Appalled , Ramsay and Moray heard it all . |
| 7 | Anyway , one morning the Commandant called them all together on the parade ground . |
| 8 | The card screamed it all . |
| 9 | Our head of department put it all together and then let us read it to see if there was anything we wished to change and add and then submitted it … |
| 10 | ‘ When the tocsin sounded we all left this room . |
| 11 | No prizes for grammar , but yesterday 's Irish Press headline said it all . |
| 12 | He survived an outstanding Pathfinder tour as a group captain , was snatched by the AOC No 6 Group to become his SASO and got a " thick " un " hut chucked it all ill to drop two ranks to command No 617 Squadron , wherein he finished the war . |
| 13 | The blurting ring of the telephone caught them all unexpectedly . |
| 14 | Richard 's disregard for their cherished customs of inheritance threatened them all , directly or indirectly , and provided a cause to which all could rally in defence of the right order of their world . |
| 15 | Peace took them all prisoner . |
| 16 | Panic took her all apart , and then she gripped herself together again . |
| 17 | And when the sun appeared they all died and then the people who were to be the people of Amantani came from other islands , from peninsulas in the south … ’ |
| 18 | At the end of the EFL training course I did in London , a British Council type gave us all a pep talk before we were packed off to Ankara or Kuala Lumpur . |
| 19 | Pausing only to send a page running to fetch her maid , fitzAlan marched her all the way to the ladies ' solar , deliberately avoiding the crowded hall . |
| 20 | The sub-title said it all : Celibacy and the Church . |
| 21 | The lights came back on and then a thud overhead made them all jump . |
| 22 | The waiter found it all very amusing though Sandison was not quite sure if the laughter came from the story itself or his own clumsy attempts to tell it . |
| 23 | The lid stopped it all from falling out when you tipped it over and the air is getting in around the cracks in the lid . |
| 24 | ( His meanings were tinged with the sharp edges of anxieties that she could n't comprehend , and joy laved them all away . ) |
| 25 | ‘ Any adventures or encounters ? ’ asked Susan languidly , and Breeze told her all about Mrs Dare , and Ebenezer Arkwright , and the Blessington-Dalrymples . |
| 26 | The Dents owned the very first car in Baldersdale and that created quite a stir I remember being at school when they first drove it round the place and the teacher brought us all out on to the road to have a closer look at this amazing thing . |
| 27 | In a bizarre pre-election address , the Texas tycoon put it all in perspective , declaring : ’ We 're all crazies , but there are millions of crazy people in this country ! ’ |
| 28 | Nora and I used to say that the war did them all a power of good . |
| 29 | The match had it all . |
| 30 | ( ‘ Nature intended them all to be small and prickly , ’ Clare had pointed out unkindly in one animated discussion . ) |